GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994 – 24 April
The Series:
Part 1 examines how the Israel Network in America is funded.
Part 3 will explore the members of the Israel Network tasked with monitoring and reporting student activity, targeting participants, doxing, smear campaigns and litigation of schools to enforce censorship.
In 2015, Netanyahu hatched up a plan to create a covert network in America to target Pro American Activists. He asked his buddy Sheldon Adelson to start the Network. Adelson invited staunch orgs to partake in demonizing activists as terrorists Zionist Org of America gladly joined.
The claim that there is widespread antisemitism & safety concerns on university campuses is a coordinated effort lead by a vast and well funded Israel Network that was spearheaded in 2015 by Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The network’s goal is to create false narratives to discredit and smear pro-Palestinian activists and manufacture consent to criminalize free speech in order to suppress criticism of Israel.
This is how it began.
In 2015, Benjamin Netanyahu started to grow concerned about the momentum of the pro-Palestinian movement in the US, in particular, on university campuses.
“Netanyahu’s greatest fear was that as a result of the growing strength of the BDS [Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions] movement, the American public would finally begin seeing Israel in the same light that many people in the rest of the world, and even in Israel, saw it: as a brutal apartheid state. The more Israel’s atrocities came to light, the more the BDS movement gained strength around the country.” Feeling confident that Israel had crushed resistance in Gaza and West Bank, Bibi turned his attention to crushing the annoying Americans making noise about Israel’s crimes.
The plan entailed a covert operation to:
- Target on-campus and online activists with smear campaigns
- PsyOp campaigns online using fake accounts and bots to label those in support of the Pro-Palestinian movement as terrorists as well as dox and smear activists
- Partner with Media to further amplify a Pro-Israel narrative & demonize the Pro-Palestinian movement as terrorism
- Campaign to have Pro-Israel sponsored and funded lawmakers pledge to fight Pro-Palestinian activism and BDS at the Federal, State and Local levels
To do the above, Bibi needed a well funded army of Pro-Israel organizations in the US to unite, organize and collaborate.
In Part 1, we will examine how this group is funded.
Part 2 will explore the members of the Israel Network tasked with monitoring student activity, reporting said activity, targeting participants, doxing, smear campaigns and litigation of schools to force censorship.
Part 3 will examine Israel Network members who influence US lawmakers and policy to ensure US law, action and funding stays Pro-Israel at the detriment of American citizens.
Funding
Bibi wanted an all out war to crush dissenting voices and while he would dedicate millions of Israeli taxpayer money, he needed dedicated funding at levels that only Zionist Billionaires in the US could provide.
US Zionist Billionaires and the Campus Maccabees Summit
In June of 2015, at the direction of the Prime Minister of Israel, Sheldon Adelson (zionist billionaire casino magnet) called a meeting in Las Vegas with other Zionist billionaires, such as Haim Saban (Hollywood Mogul) and Adam Milstein (real estate magnet and convicted criminal) to discuss Bibi’s plan and solicit their donations. “
Before the night was over, the group had raised upwards of $50 million for Netanyahu’s war inside the United States; tens of millions more would covertly come from the Israeli government through a variety of hidden fronts and shell organizations.”
“When it comes to Israel we’re absolutely on the same page. Our interest is to take care of Israel’s interest in the United States. Period. Over and out,” –
Following the closed door meeting later dubbed the Maccabees Task Force, Adelson, Saban and Milstein hosted the first Campus Maccabees Summit where 20 Pro-Israel donors were invited and asked to make a commitment of $1M over the next two years. 50 Pro-Israel organizations were invited to attend and make a pitch for funding and entrance into the Israel Network. Participants pitched a 10-minute presentation to donors and those that were selected participated in a five-hour “Mega Philanthropists Session,” on Saturday, June 6, where they
- developed a conceptual framework for Bibi’s Plan to unify Pro-Israel organizations as an attack vector against the Pro-Palestinian movement,
- assigned roles and responsibilities to Israel Network organizations, and
- “created an appropriate command-and-control system to implement it”.
Pro-Israel organizations who attended the Campus Maccabees Summit included (sample list out of 50 invitees):
- Hillel
- Anti-Defamation League
- Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi
- StandWithUs
- Zionist Organization of America
- Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET)
- Jewish Federations of North America
- Taglit-Birthright Israel
- Middle East Forum
- Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
- Christians United for Israel
- Washington Free Beacon
- Clarion Project-well known for promoting islamophobia
“You work together and we will raise you the money,” promised Israeli-American businessman
“You no longer have to worry about financing and fundraising. You just need to be united.”
The summit was organized quickly but not with lack of detail. To help observe Sabbath laws while pitching for donations on a Saturday, the conference organizers told attendees they had hired a “goy” (derogatory term for non-Jew). “We are hiring a Goy of Shabbat to change slides for Jewish presenters”.
Adelson appointed Rabbi Shmuley Boteach as the initiative’s point man. At the time, Boteach was somewhat of a celebrity with ties to Hollywood celebrities. Later that year, Haaretz reported that Boteach was no longer closely involved and that the Israel Network hired David Brog, the former Executive Director of Christian Zionists of America to lead its efforts. By the end of 2015, the Israel Network was “doing market research to learn which pro-Israel messaging is most effective with college students.”
Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs
Bibi pledged $30 Million to the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs who was charged with distributing this money to Pro-Israel Lobby and Advocacy groups in the US “and with the help of Adelson’s group and others possibly as much as $900 million.”
Initially, the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs attempted to fund US based Israel Network members directly but fear of violating FARA caused many to reject the funding. To skirt FARA rules, the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs created a non-governmental organization (NGO) called Concert (initially called Kela Shlomo) to funnel money to US member organizations within the Israel Network. Its directors included the former CEO of the Israeli American Council, an American Jewish nonprofit supported by casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson. In addition to receiving funding and working under the direction of Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs, Concert solicited donations from wealthy Zionists to match Israel Government’s funding. However, fears of FARA continued to persist both among US Zionist donors and Israel Network member organizations so in 2020, Concert along with the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs decided to become facilitators directing US Zionist donors to directly fund Israel Network members and Kela Shlomo stopped operations.
In 2022, the Israeli Government made a second attempt by relaunching Concert Restart Fund providing Pro-Israel organizations with 50% match in donations. Based on the list of recipients of Israel money, Concert’s relaunch focused on distributing funding to Christian Zionist organizations and student advocacy groups who were further removed from US Government decision making, thus, lower risk of violating FARA.
Concert meeting minutes obtains under Freedom of Information request show 20 “amplification units” (a term for organizations receiving Israel funding for amplifying Pro-Israel propaganda) received $200K each. Some of the names listed were:
- Christians United for Israel (Also attended the Maccabees Summit and their Executive Director became the Maccabees Task Force (Israel Network) Director)
- Our Soldiers Speak
- Eagles’ Wings, which Concert staff said is “viewed as more liberal in the evangelical Christian world, so it is able to reach wider audiences.
- Israel-is, whose goal, according to the documents, was “preparing Israelis for their big trip” – providing seminars for backpackers before trips to Latin America and Thailand of the type many Israelis take after completing their military service. The program’s website says its goal is to help and strengthen Israel’s image around the world.
- Zionist Federation in South Africa
- The Israel Allies Foundation, which describes itself as promoting political support for Israel on the basis of Judeo-Christian values
- Reservists on Duty’s Gideon Group project, which trains Israeli students to counter the BDS movement on campuses overseas, as well as other projects.
In January 2024, the Concert website shutdown without explanation.
Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA)
It is important to note that the funding schemes listed above are in violation of the US Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA).
- Pro-Israel organizations registered in the US taking money from and operating under the direction of Israel to target American activists, and
- US citizens funding a foreign government’s campaign to target Americans at the behest of said foreign government, Israel. As the Nation noted, “There was a reason the Adelson task force [Maccabees Task Force] formally demanded pledges of secrecy before, during, and after the meeting. Once they closed the door at the Venetian, they opened the door to potential criminal prosecution as agents of a foreign power, a very serious offense punishable by up to a decade in prison.”
According to 18 USC § 951: “Whoever, other than a diplomatic or consular officer or attaché, acts in the United States as an agent of a foreign government without prior notification to the Attorney General…shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both…. For purposes of this section, the term ‘agent of a foreign government’ means an individual who agrees to operate within the United States subject to the direction or control of a foreign government or official.”
NOTE: This is a working research project. It is not a summary of the full extent of this network. Only what I was able to identify. As I discover more information, I may republish an updated version.
GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994 – 24 April